All Episodes

Buy the People: Why the CFPB is a lightning rod government agency

Buy the People: Two visions, one rule – How Basel injected populism into bank capital

Buy the People: Why everyone loves to hate the Fed

Buy the People: Red as Rust — Sherrod Brown's battle for Ohio's populist vote

Coming soon: Buy The People, a Bankshot season on populism in finance

Ep. 69: What banks need to know about the employee-owned business boom

Ep. 68: A peek into the future of payments

Ep. 67: The 'poignant American drama' of the Home Loan Bank System

Ep. 66: How this spring's bank failures will shape bank supervision

Ep. 65: Banks, Buffalo and a mass shooting – How the industry can help heal a targeted community

Ep. 64: Earned wage access: Early payday or payday loan?

Ep. 63: Unraveling the fallout from FTX's spectacular collapse on the crypto sector

Ep. 62: A tiny credit union's tall order

Ep. 61: The long shadow of the 2023 banking crisis

Ep. 60: Lost in translation: Why non-English speakers can struggle at banks

Ep. 59: Behind the Wells Fargo story: An elusive corporate insider opens up

Ep. 58: Home appraisers are fed up with how their industry is run

Ep. 57: Can congressional Democrats beat back a red wave?

Ep. 56: Cannabis banking reform is almost here. What happens next? (Updated)

Ep. 55: Should banks be more worried about World War III or Cold War II?

Ep. 54: The revolution will not be centralized

Ep. 53: Banks' battle against IRS reporting isn't over

Ep. 52: What will it take to get banks back into remittances?

Ep. 51: Have fintechs cracked the financial inclusion code?

Ep. 50: Will there ever be a Basel V?

Ep. 49: Banks' forever war against cyberattacks

Ep. 48: Can cryptocurrency become mainstream?

Ep. 47: It's getting harder to keep the Fed out of politics

Ep. 46: Unchartered territory: How Indigenous communities are banking themselves

Ep. 45: What will it take for open banking to take hold in the U.S.?

Ep. 44: Regulators want to stress-test banks for climate risks. Can it work?

Ep. 43: Hitting the brakes on subprime auto lending

Ep. 42: The long and the short of market manipulation

Ep. 41: Rightsizing the Fed's emergency lending powers

Access Denied episode 5: The financial media

Access Denied episode 4: Allocation and exacerbation

Ep. 40: What to expect when you're expecting divided government

Access Denied episode 3: Representation

Ep. 39: Why is it so hard for a fintech to become a bank?

Access Denied episode 2: Underserved or ignored?

Ep. 38: A Fed digital currency looks inevitable. So do the problems.

Access Denied episode 1: The wealth effect

Ep. 37: The last thing investors need is a contested election

Ep. 36: The real cost of overdraft fees

Ep. 35: Why won't Congress fix flood insurance?

Ep. 34: Making sense of a bull market in a bear economy

Ep. 33: Postal banking is a solution, but to which problem?

Ep. 32: Libor is out, but SOFR isn't quite in

Ep. 31: Can small-dollar loans be both profitable and fair?

Ep. 30: What would a Democratic sweep mean for banking?

Ep. 29: How COVID-19 could alter the regulatory landscape

Leaders preview: Hear and be heard

Ep. 28: Are independent regulators unconstitutional?

Ep. 27: Should banks stay in the oil business?

Ep. 26: The coronavirus could force a full-blown crisis in credit scoring

Ep. 25: Local governments are in trouble. Can the Fed save them?

Introducing Zero Day

Ep. 24: Banks brace for a new normal in commercial real estate

Ep. 23: Is it time to worry about inflation — or deflation?

Ep. 22: 'We've never seen anything like this before'

Ep. 21: The devil and the details of CRA reform

Ep. 20: Can the Trump administration reform housing on its own?

Ep. 19: Why reforming Fannie and Freddie is so hard to do

Ep. 18: Has banking become too political?

Ep. 17: Financial abuse of elders is getting worse

Ep. 16: Do big credit unions act too much like banks?

Ep. 15: Libor is ending. We aren't ready

Ep. 14: Who's afraid of the narrow bank?

Ep. 13: Are AML rules catching only the 'stupid' criminals?

Ep. 12: Facebook's bid to break banking

Ep. 11: 'Farmers are caught in a liquidity trap'

Ep. 10: CECL's uncharted territory

Ep. 9: Is leveraged lending a systemic risk?

Ep. 8: The 'secret enforcement tool' that has bankers spooked

Ep. 7: The evolution of the Fed's stress tests

Ep. 6: Why is the U.S. payments system still so slow?

Ep. 5: What is the 'branch of the future'?

Ep. 4: 'Merge or Die'

Ep. 3: 'Banks are a big, fat target': Inside the 2020 race

Ep. 2: The unstable stability council

Ep. 1: Greed isn't good enough